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Author and columnist Max du Preez says Judge Steenkamp was committed to justice

The newly crowned South African Footballer of the year Thembinkosi “Nyoso” Lorch has congratulated his former coach Dan “Dance” Malesela for making history this past weekend, leading TS Galaxy to the Nedbank Cup title, the first South African lower division team to do so. Lorch played under Malesela at Cape Town All Stars and Chippa United and this is where he made his mark before returning to his...

Jozef Vukusic says he took a decision to part ways with Limpopo Premier Soccer League side Polokwane City due to private family matters. Vukusic led City to a fifth spot finish with 44 points in the 2018/19 Absa premiership season. He is already at home in Slovakia however he reveals the resignation process is not yet complete.

South African Football Association President Danny Jordaan says teams must deal with cases and disputes early. He said this at the ABC Motsepe Playoffs draw in which teams in four provinces have lodged protests ahead of the playoffs. Acornbush United, Mangaung United, Steenberg United, Summer Fields Dynamos and Hungry Lions will represent their provinces, while teams in Limpopo, North West, Easter...

South African Football Association President Danny Jordaan is not concerned about security issues in Egypt ahead of the 2019 Africa cup of nations. Several South Africans were injured in Egypt on Sunday (19 May 2019) when the bus they were travelling in to the famed Giza pyramids was attacked. Pictures posted on social media showed a bus with some of its windows blown out, shattered and debris nex...

TS Galaxy is a football club that’s only been operating for the past three years and has only been in the professional football set-up for 10 months but they’ve made history. They have achieved something which teams in the lower divisions couldn’t do in the previous years, to win the Nedbank Cup title. The Mpumalanga based club who bought the status of Cape Town All Stars at the end of last season...

Softball South Africa President Mashilo Matsetela says the first season of the Softball Premier League ran for a short period due to commitments of the various international competitions this year. The League which started earlier this month will conclude in Cape Town on the 1st of June. Matsetela says general national elections also contributed to the length of the campaign adding that they were...

After having failed in their bid to win promotion to the Absa Premiership this season, Ajax Cape Town, who finished fourth in the National First Division, have announced the departure of 12 players from the club. The Club’s Head of Football, Hans Vonk says it is always sad to see players go, especially the likes of Brandon Petersen, Tashreeq Morris and Sirgio Kammies, who have been at the club sin...

TS Galaxy defender Sizwe Mdlinzo says they never once doubted their ability to beat Kaizer Chiefs in the Nedbank Cup final over the weekend. The National First Division club caused one of the biggest upsets in South African cup football history when they stunned Amakhosi 1-0 at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Saturday.

The Stormers will be looking for a good win on Saturday (25 May 2019), when they host the Highlanders at Newlands Rugby Ground, knowing that every result now matters if they are to stand a chance of progressing in the Super Rugby tournament. The Stormers drew 19-All against the Crusaders this past weekend, and while they would have loved to win the game, Captain Siya Kolisi says they can take conf...

Belgian international Luc Eymael says that maybe things could have been different for Free State Stars if he had stayed. The Bethlehem outfit was automatically relegated from the PSL to the National First Division earlier in the month of May after they lost 1-0 against Mamelodi Sundown’s at the Goble Park Stadium. The win in turn saw Sundown’s win the Absa Premiership league for a ninth time. Eyma...

Orlando Pirates attacker Thembinkosi “Nyoso” Lorch was the biggest winner at the Premier Soccer League awards that took place at the Durban International Convention Centre (ICC) on Sunday night (19 May 2019). Lorch took home the much sought after Footballer of the year award and the all-important Players’ Player of the Year award. In both awards he beat competition from the Mamelodi Sundowns duo o...

Represented by three teams of Mens, Women and Quads, Wheelchair Tennis South Africa (WTSA) returned home on Monday (20 May 2019) on the heels of semi-final exits at the week-long Paribas World Team Cup in Israel. Narrowly missing out on making the final after losing to the host nation in the semi-finals, the quads team of Lucas Sithole, Danny Mohlamonyane and Donald Ramphadi defeated Great Britain...

The President Star Males team hammered Zimbabwe 82-47 in a thrilling Telkom Netball Premier League match at the Rembrandt Hall at the University of Pretoria on Sunday afternoon (19 May 2019). It was the Males team debut match in the tournament. They will play their remaining two matches against the Spar Smileys next weekend. Zimbabwe have also used the match to prepare for the world cup in Liverpo...

Awande Malinga’s team coach at Tuks University, Liz Mackenzie who has been involved in churning out the country’s Squash talent for over forty years has total belief in the 13-year-old and that the sport is played at a high level locally but however feels hard done that a South African Squash has not been able to represent the country at the Commonwealth Games in a long time after SASCOC made the...

She may only be 13 years of age but Awande Malinga has tongues wagging in the world of Squash as the Midstream College girl is putting in mature performances that belie her true age on the court.

Bernet George and Asanda Sangweni took the first place in District (D2) School Individual Chess Championships in the under-18 and under 13 category respectively, earning themselves spots in the 2019 Gauteng Schools Individual Chess Championship to take place on the 24th - 25th May in Tshwane Event Centre. The Primary School Female Athlete of the Year, Minentle Miya, who competed in Under 11 catego...

Arnold Classic Africa in partnership with Gauteng Provincial Government and SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) kick started in three different venues including the Country Club Johannesburg for Golf and Northcliff Bowl for Pin bowing.

Hollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says that the annual Arnold Sports festival currently taking place in Sandton this weekend is bigger than the Olympics.

Having represented the country with flying colours during her heydays, retired swimming stalwart Natalie du Toit lauded the Minister for bringing the three codes under one roof and shared her wishes too. Meanwhile, lanky Proteas Women player Zanele Vimbela expressed gratitude to the ministry

2019 is certainly a fruitful year for South African sports as five national teams will represent the country at their respective World Cups throughout the year. Minister of Sport Ms Tokozile Xasa celebrated and honoured the incredible feat by hosting a hero’s send-off lunch in Johannesburg, for the three sides leaving the country soon.

While the Stormers would have enjoyed the win, Coach Robbie Fleck says it felt good to get something out of the game against the best team in the competition…

The Stormers kept their hopes of reaching the knockout stages of Super Rugby alive when they held the defending champions the Crusaders to a 19 all draw at Newlands Rugby Stadium.

While there was all joy in the red corner, there was all gloom in the yellow one, more so for Chiefs coach Ernst Middendorp, who described the loss as shocking and embarrassing for the Kaizer Chiefs institution.

TS Galaxy rewrote the history books on Saturday when they stunned Kaizer Chiefs to become the first National First Division club to win the Nedbank Cup.